Above, pumpkins awaited weigh-ins during the contest. In the foreground is Wallace’s gigantic pumpkin, the eventual winner.
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Ron Wallace’s pumpkin was moved onto the scale to be weighed during the Topsfield Fair pumpkin weight-off event.According to fair officials, the previous record weight in the Topsfield contest was recorded in 2007, when Joe Jutras of North Scituate, R.I., submitted a 1,689-pound pumpkin.
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Wallace (center), 46, of Greene, R.I., reacted after the pumpkin’s winning weight was shown. Prior to Friday, no pumpkin had surpassed the 2,000-pound mark. With Wallace is his father, Richard (left), and his mother, Cathy.
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Witnesses to Wallace's pumpkin-growing feat lifted him onto their shoulders for a celebratory tour of the event site.
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Wallace held a sign proclaiming the winning pumpkin's record-breaking weight.
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Others in the contest were merely competing for second place. One of them was Barry LeBlanc of New Hampshire, who stood with his broken pumpkin. The 822-pound sphere broke while being weighed in at the pumpkin contest.
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Fair volunteers crowded around LeBlanc’s pumpkin after it broke during the weigh-in.
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